Chapter 399: War on Three Fronts (3)
In the night, Guan Yu wore a green robe and gold armor, held an eighty-two pound Qinglong Yanyue Knife, and led 30,000 Jingzhou troops to kill Xiangyang and go straight to the riverside with his two sons Guan Ping and Guan Xing, as well as his subordinates Zhou Cang and Liao Hua.
Walking less than twenty miles, Guan Yu saw the Jiangdong Army, which had the same number of people as his own troops, appeared in his field of vision. The general headed by Jiangdong is Sun Ce, the lord of Jiangdong, beside him, on the left is Lu Meng, who took over the position of Zhou Yu's governor, and on the right is a young general, at most only thirteen or fourteen years old, who can appear next to Sun Ce, is naturally the person Sun Ce trusts and relies on very much, this young general, is the famous Lu Xun, and is also Sun Ce's future son-in-law, Sun Ce has already set a baby kiss with Lu Xun's father, but Sun Ce's daughter is still young, and this marriage will not be realized until at least seven or eight years later. But this does not affect Sun Ce's preference for Lu Xun, in the past year, Lu Xun's figure has frequently appeared around Sun Ce, and he has also begun to participate in national affairs, many times, the young Lu Xun can put forward some very suggestive strategies, which also makes Sun Ce rely on Lu Xun more.
Even the combat policy of crossing the river in white this time has Lu Xun's wisdom in it, so not only Sun Ce, but even Zhou Yu and Sun Quan, the two second and third figures, attach great importance to Lu Xun.
However, the arrogant Guan Yu would not pay attention to a hairy boy like Lu Xun, raised the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, pointed at Sun Ce, and shouted angrily: "Sun Bofu! You attacked my Jingzhou at night, did you deceive that there are no real heroes in our army? ”
Sun Ceha smiled, put away the heavy gun in his hand, put on a peace talk, and said to Guan Yu: "The prestige of the prince is unknown, who in the world does not know? No matter how ignorant he is, he doesn't dare to easily offend the tiger power of the prince, but he was ordered by the regent to conquer Jingxiang in a limited day. It's really a last resort, and I ask for your forgiveness. ”
With Sun Ce's temper, he would not have said so much to Guan Yu, and it was in line with his temper to rush up to fight directly with a gun, but now Sun Ce has changed a lot, and he is no longer as reckless as before. The Jiangdong army that crossed the river this time had a total of 50,000 people. Now Guan Yu only saw about 30,000, and the remaining 20,000 horses had already taken a detour to attack Xiangyang under the leadership of Zhou Yu, which was also the reason why Guan Yu did not see Zhou Yu.
"In that case, then there is no need to say anything more, let the horses come!" Guan Yu proudly held the Blue Dragon Glaive Knife and challenged Sun Ce.
Sun Ce smiled and followed Guan Yu's words and said, "That's it." Sun Ce must not disobey the order of the regent, but he doesn't want to be an enemy of the prince, so let's have a fight. If the prince and marquis defeated Sun Ce alone, Sun Ce would give up his command of the Jiangdong Army, turn around and leave, if Sun Ce won by luck. How about asking the prince to give up Xiangyang? Sun Ce's words were told to Sun Ce secretly by Lu Xun. Giving up the command of the Jiangdong Army does not mean that the attack on Jingxiang will be stopped, and Lu Meng can take over the command and continue to attack Xiangyang, and Sun Ce's martial arts are not weak, and he has obtained the true inheritance of Ao Lie, even Guan Yu cannot easily win this challenge in a moment and a half, so that he can buy more time for Zhou Yu, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
The arrogant Guan Yu didn't notice the deep meaning of Sun Ce's words at all, or even if Guan Yu noticed it, he wouldn't take it to heart, except for Zhou Yu, no matter who the commander of Jiangdong was, Guan Yu didn't look at it. You must know that Guan Yu is not only excellent in martial arts, but also has a very good command of operations, otherwise he would not have flooded the Seventh Army and captured Yu Ban, so that Yu Ban would have surrendered to Liu Bei.
After Sun Ce handed out the signal of heads-up, Guan Yu instigated Zi Yu to take more than a dozen steps forward, and then slightly raised the Qinglong Glaive Knife a few points, silently responding to Sun Ce's challenge, and the meaning of arrogance was self-evident.
Seeing Guan Yu's reaction, Sun Ce was furious in his heart, but he still kept smiling on the surface, clasped his fists and saluted Guan Yu, and then instigated the black spur to stab at Guan Yu with a heavy gun. Sun Ce was polite on the surface, but he was ruthless, and his shot was a fatal move.
Guan Yu swung the Green Dragon Glaive Knife, held the knife in one hand in his right hand, and slashed at Sun Ce's heavy spear. The deafening sound of the collision suddenly sounded, and Sun Ce's heavy gun paused slightly in the collision, and then stabbed at Guan Yu's throat again. On the other hand, Guan Yu's Green Dragon Glaive was knocked into the ground and bounced three inches upward, causing Sun Ce's heavy spear to leak under his blade.
It stands to reason that it is not impossible for Guan Yu to block Sun Ce's knife, or even defeat Sun Ce, but Guan Yu is really a little too supportive, in the face of Sun Ce's all-out stabbing shot, he actually held the knife with one hand to resist, and under the competition between the two, it was inevitable to suffer a dark loss.
Seeing that the big knife was knocked away, Guan Yu was angry, and his free left hand finally stretched out, holding it on the handle of the knife like lightning, and at the same time, his right hand pulled and turned, and his hands drove the Qinglong Yanyue Knife to slash down, and slashed at Sun Ce's heavy spear again.
Bell-There was another violent collision sound, this time, Sun Ce didn't hit Guan Yu's big knife, but was hit by the Qinglong Yanyue Knife The heavy gun in his hand was a few points off, and he stabbed Guan Yu's ear in the air, failing to hurt a single hair of Guan Yu.
When the two horses staggered, Sun Ce took advantage of Guan Yu's strength to throw the gun out of his hand and slammed it towards Guan Yu's waist with the barrel of the gun. Guan Yu snorted coldly, and the Qinglong Yanyue Knife suddenly pulled back, blocking the barrel of the gun that Sun Ce drew with the hilt of the knife, blocking the barrel of the gun that Sun Ce had drawn.
Driven by the sit-down war horse, after running forward for more than ten steps, Guan Yu and Sun Ce turned back to the horse's head at the same time and looked at each other. Through the two fights in a round just now, each other has already tested the strength of the other party, knowing that it is impossible to press the opponent with force, so Sun Ce decided to fight with Guan Yu next, on the one hand, to delay the time, so that Zhou Yu can surprise Xiangyang, on the other hand, you can find a fighter, and wait for Guan Yu to make a mistake, and give him a fatal blow. Guan Yu narrowed a pair of Danfeng eyes, and a cold killing intent burst out from the cracks in his eyes, at this moment, he had put away his contempt and began to get serious.
The next moment, the two of them instigated their war horses at the same time and rushed towards each other, Sun Ce went all out, and used the eighteen slashes that Ao Lie taught him, and at the same time, in a sober state, he stimulated his own crazy state, and forcibly increased his strength by two percent! In the more than a year that Yanjing has followed Ao Lie, Sun Ce has been able to make good use of his mad state inspired by anger, and later returned to Jiangdong, Sun Ce has done a lot of homework in this regard, and now he can use this special state freely.
Seeing that Sun Ce's momentum had risen sharply, and the strength of his shot had become two points stronger, Guan Yu did not dare to be careless, and unreservedly displayed the famous stunt Spring and Autumn Knife Technique, striving to defeat Sun Ce within ten moves!
The endless Spring and Autumn Sword Technique and the thunderous Eighteen Slashes collided together like Mars hitting the earth, Guan Yu and Sun Ce, the two fierce generals in the world, really started the only battle in their lives!
If it weren't for Sun Ce's guidance from Ao Lie, it would be impossible for him to hold out under Guan Yu's knife for too long; If it weren't for Guan Yu's initial underestimation of the enemy and the waste of the first three swords with the strongest power in the Spring and Autumn Sword Technique, maybe Sun Ce would have been in a different place, but unfortunately, there was no if in this world, under the influence of a variety of factors, the two fought back and forth, and fought for more than 30 rounds, and it was still an undecided game.
At this moment, a rapid sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded behind the battle formation of the Jingzhou army, and a captain rode his horse and galloped wildly, passed through the battle formation of the Jingzhou army, and came to the front of the formation and shouted at Guan Yu: "Junhou! Xiangyang City was attacked by the Jiangdong Army, and Ma joined the army to ask the prince to return to the city quickly and resist the enemy! ”
Sun Ce had successfully held Guan Yu back for nearly half an hour, and during this time, Zhou Yu, who had bypassed Guan Yu's department, had already begun to launch an attack on Xiangyang City. There are only more than 50,000 soldiers and horses in Xiangyang City, Guan Yu sent more than 5,000 people to the riverside fortification, but was solved by the Jiangdong army who crossed the river in white unknowingly, and then Guan Yu took 30,000 people out of the city to fight with Sun Ce, and now there are only more than 10,000 people left in the city at most, in the face of Zhou Yu's 20,000 Jiangdong Army's brave attack, it is quite difficult to deal with, so Ma Liang sent people out of the city at the first time, asked Guan Yu for help, and asked Guan Yu to return to the army to rescue.
Hearing the captain's shout, Guan Yu was shocked, and hurriedly split Sun Ce with a knife, and was about to turn around the war horse to return to Xiangyang. When Sun Ce saw Guan Yu's movements, he immediately shouted, "Junhou! If you and I don't win or lose, do you want to retreat? ”
Who is Guan Yu? The arrogance in his heart was unmatched in the world, and when he heard Sun Ce's shout, Guan Yu was furious in his heart, and he waved the Qinglong Yanyue Knife and shouted: "Is Guan Mou the one who escaped from the battle?" If you want to fight, then fight! After that, Guan Yu made a color to his eldest son Guan Ping behind him, signaling him to take the men and horses back to Xiangyang first, and then ride his horse to kill Sun Ce again.
"Father!" "Father!" Two hurried calls sounded in the mouths of Guan Ping and Guan Xing at the same time, but they were powerless to stop Guan Yu's rush to kill, the brothers looked at each other helplessly, so they had to divide into two ways, Guan Ping and Liao Hua returned to Xiangyang with half of the men and horses, and Guan Xing and Zhou Cang stayed with the other half of the men and horses, waiting for Guan Yu and Sun Ce to divide the victory.
The balance of the battle, under Guan Yu's arrogance, began to deflect, and slowly turned in a direction that was unfavorable to the Jingzhou army. (To be continued......)